Arby’s Increases Energy Efficiency

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Arby’s Restaurant Group Inc. (ARG), franchisor of the quick-service chain with nearly 3,400 Arby’s restaurants worldwide, announced energy reduction savings as part of a company-wide effort to lessen environmental impact. The sustainability efforts are a key component in Arby’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy.

ARG achieved a 7.6 percent reduction in Energy Use Intensity, a unit of measurement for analyzing a building’s energy use, as a result of a variety of energy initiatives implemented in 2013 as part of the Efficiency Matters program. Efficiency Matters is a cost-saving energy management platform developed to help improve efficiencies in restaurants and reduce energy consumption and associated environmental and community impacts.

“ARG is committed to the reduction of energy usage within our restaurants,” says George Condos, ARG president and chief operating officer. “As a brand, we strive to continuously improve our performance and work towards energy-efficient best practices where cost-effective. Managing energy as a controllable expense gives Arby’s a competitive advantage, improves the bottom line and helps us to be responsible corporate citizens. In short, efficiency matters.”

HID (High Intensity Discharge) to LED exterior lighting in 102 restaurants with

savings of 1,161,576 kWh

Overall, the sum of the savings between 2011 and 2013 has provided significant environmental benefits equivalent to:

Removing over 13,000 passenger cars from the road for one year

Avoiding the emissions from almost 6,000 homes’ energy use for one year

Growing over 1.6 million tree seedlings for 10 years.

ARG ‘s energy efficiency partners, including Ecova and Powerhouse Dynamics, have been instrumental in helping the Arby’s brand realize these cost and energy savings. ARG has set a goal of achieving 15 percent Energy Use Intensity reduction by 2015 in company-owned restaurants versus a 2011 baseline and plans to achieve the energy reduction goals with guidelines and initiatives to donsider energy efficiency in all operations and decision-making processes; create a culture that drives continual improvement in energy performance; improves productivity and reduces environmental impacts through regular review of current activities; procure equipment in the most energy-efficient and cost-effective manner; and ensure all levels of the organization share responsibility in the implementation of this goal.

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